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While characters are bludgeoned, shot and stabbed on stage, audiences are hit over the head with plot repetition of "Deathtrap." Presented by the Will Rice College Players, Ira Levin's "Deathtrap" is the "Inception" of theater.
As we trudge through finals, healthy food choices take a backseat to late-night munchies and post-all-nighter breakfast feasts. Though the chocolate muffins at Baker College Kitchen satiate our palettes with stress-relieving cocoa, and we convince ourselves that the heaps of bacon piled onto our plates simply fulfill the protein quota in our diets, the truth is these servery options do little in helping us achieve that poolside figure for the upcoming summer season.
Few could walk past the ground level of Sewall Hall without diverting their path to peer down into the Sculpture Courtyard. Percussion beats and wind harmonies beckoned liberated students recently released for midterm recess.
There is a new kid on the craft beer block, and although he grew up in rural Maine, he is a true Houstonian at heart. Rassul Zarinfar (Baker '04), owner of Buffalo Bayou Brewing Co., asserted his unapologetic zeal for Houston by labeling his first beer "1836." It is the year of Texas' declaration of independence from Mexico, which Zarinfar commemorated by designing the tap handle as a replica of Davy Crockett's beloved rifle, "Old Betsy."
Athletes living on campus will no longer need to rush from practice or wait until the Hoot opens to eat dinner. The Student Association, in collaboration with the Student Athletic Advisory Committee and Housing and Dining, will soon implement a pilot program at South Servery Cafe to accommodate student-athletes with late practices and general students who still feel hungry post-dinner.
Baker Kitchen Executive Chef Cari Clark has tasted cuisines from around the world, so it may come as a surprise to learn that her favorite food is something even the less traveled may well be familiar with: Rice Krispies treats. For Clark, her love of Rice Krispies treats makes sense in the context of her approach to cooking: minimal ingredients, simple dishes.
Digital camera in one hand and a pile of prints in the other, Jones College senior Hallie Jordan roamed around Paris last June on a mission to recapture the same locations photographed by Eugene Atget 100 years ago. As part of the Fotofest 2012 Biennial, Jordan's Days and Nights in Paris: In the Footsteps of Atget is on view at the Rice University Media Center now through March 23.
Director of Rice University's Religion and Public Life Program Elaine Ecklund will direct an international study of science and religion thanks to a $2 million grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation.
Austin Kubitza may only be a sophomore but the amount of accolades he has garnered since post-baseball season last year are enough to confuse him with any seasoned upper-classman. As a freshman, Kubitza earned his way to the coveted spot of the Rice University Owls' Friday-night starting pitcher. If there was any speculation regarding Coach Wayne Graham's choice to start the right-handed rookie, Kubitza put it to bed by posting impressive results, such as the most strikeouts by an Owl in four years. Regardless of his consistent pre-season performances on the mound, Kubitza himself was just as surprised by his starting assignment as a freshman.
Art has pervaded the bottom floor hallway of Fondren Library in the form of multi-colored post-it notes. These post-it notes mark an interactive publicity campaign for a call to submit art of all forms — studio art, film, photography, sculpture, performance, and fashion — to the upcoming celebrateART festival, which will take place on March 9. The prompts, first "How are you feeling today?" and now "What does the world need more of?" have invited post-it note responses varying from a drawing of a gorilla to a witty cartoon of Homer Simpson. These responses support exactly why Martel College junior Melissa Teng and Brown College junior Raquel Perez have applied for an Envision Grant to host a campus-wide arts festival: Rice University students are creative, they just lack a means of expression.
Japanese Surrealist poet Shuzo Takiguchi once said, "I feel more appropriate to call the writing process itself ‘poetry' rather than the written texts." Baker College senior Kieran Lyons seems to share Takiguchi's philosophy when it comes to the process of drawing. On Feb. 2, Lyons, a visual and dramatic arts and cognitive sciences double major, engaged in a drawing performance, titled "Self Portrait," at the opening reception of his first Matchbox Gallery exhibition, on view until Feb. 23.
Leadership Rice's Envision Grants award students the capital to effect change on campus. This year, five grants have been awarded, up from four last year, to help start up new projects: Karma Patrol, Rice University Women in Science and Engineering, celebrateART, Food for Thought and Acappellooza. The Envision Grant is a one-time allocation to students whose projects have proved not only visionary but also self-sustaining, Envision Grant Mentor Michael Domeracki, said.
Rice University's three-mile "Outer Loop" hosts a multitude of active Houstonians every day. Some people run, some bike, and some walk and talk with friends. Yvonne Jacobs recycles. Ever since moving to Texas from California about 40 years ago, Jacobs has become an ever-visible character on the Outer Loop. Though her name may not ring a bell, she is instantly recognizable by the vest she wears, which reads, "Recycle good, Reuse better, Reduce best, 350.org."
In a recent Piers Morgan interview, Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter) surprised audiences with his outspoken religious piety.
On the heels of the recently approved $44.5 million new athletics facility and football stadium renovation projects by the Rice University board of trustees, President David Leebron and Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan hosted Rice student-athletes, alumni, boosters and faculty at the Rice Athletics Public Forum Jan. 19 in the Shepherd School of Music's Stude Hall to share their vision of Rice athletics and take questions from the audience.
The golf course moves indoors with Mick Johnson's exhibition "9," on display at the Rice Media Center. "9," which opened last Thursday, represents a culmination of Johnson's two interests: golf and art. Johnson, who usually explores architectural spaces confined within homes, steps out of his domestic comfort zone and into the realm of fabricated nature.
Houston made history last Saturday morning when, for the first time ever, the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon races for both men and women were held on the same course, on the same day. For the competitors, the road to the London 2012 Olympic Games began in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center on the Avenida de las Americas. In just a few short hours, the course outlined throughout the Space City determined which three men and women would represent Team USA on the biggest athletics stage in the world.
Before eccentric relatives invaded our homes over the Thanksgiving break, aliens invaded and subverted the home of Duncan College Masters Luis Duno-Gottberg and Marnie Hylton. On Nov. 21, the aliens, the Duncan Theater and Arts Committee, invited students to experience "Alien: An Evening of Art," a living room-style visual and performing arts exhibition.
The sculptures currently on display in the "New Sculptures" exhibition certainly do not look like work you would expect from beginning sculpture students. The exhibition, showing until Dec. 16 in the Main Gallery of the Rice Media Center, features work completed by ARTS 365: Sculpture I students under the direction of lecturer Natasha Bowdoin. The contemporary sculptures vary in size and media, including wood, metal, plaster and cardboard. Through the class projects "The Giant Head," "The Deconstructed Chair" and "The Body Fragmented," Bowdoin encouraged students to explore the relationship between concept ?and construction.
The Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston must have all the other Egyptian pharaohs rolling in their sarcophagi. Despite efforts by King Tut's successors to erase his name from official coronation records, Tut has paradoxically attained the highest level of posthumous recognition of any pharaoh after the discovery of his relatively unlooted tomb in 1922. The Tut exhibition touched down in the MFAH last month on Oct. 16 and will grace the upper level of the Caroline Wiess Law building until ?April 15, 2012.
